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, when you reach 18 years of age, you are legally an adult.
rights allow you to vote, join the military, obtain a marriage permit, sign legally binding .
contracts and many others except purchase and consume alcohol. Many feel this is the best .
reason for lowering the drinking age. I want to take a different approach at the issue; I .
think the legal drinking age should be lowered to allow young adults to drink under .
supervision in controlled environments such as restaurants, taverns, pubs and official .
school and university functions. We should allow drinking under supervision at an early .
age, because this teaches and develops more responsible acts of drinking. In these .
situations responsible drinking could be taught through role modeling and educational .
programs, this would develop mature and sensible drinking behavior. As we teach more .
responsible drinkers, then we can correct our current problem of abusive drinking.
The drinking age is to youth today, what the Jim Crow laws was to blacks in the .
Old South. This law segregates our youth, while it is meant to protect society. .
Unfortunately, it has backfired. Drinking age laws do a fine job of keeping young people .
out of clubs and bars. Unfortunately, these laws do nothing to keep young people from .
getting access to alcohol from other places. After all, the law is fundamentally .
unenforceable -- how does one stop kids from getting beer from an older brother or friend? .
The number one obstacle to drinking age reform is the National Minimum Drinking Age .
Act of 1984, which virtually required states to set their drinking age at 21. The rate of .
alcohol-related fatalities among youth has dropped since the bill's passage, a fact which .
some claim justifies the law. Yet anyone who attends college knows that while they may .
not be able to have a glass of wine with dinner, they certainly can find a beer at a party. .
Some have linked the increased drinking age to the disturbingly common phenomenon of .

Essays Related to Underage Drinking: Is Lowering The Drinking Age The Solution

Underage drinking will be minimized if the age group of 18 to 20 is allowed alcohol. ... This seems to be a problem all over the country and a debate has started to see whether or not lowering the drinking age would be a reasonable solution to keep students from over drinking. ... I believe that if the drinking age is lowered then the students that are now underage will not feel as if they have to go on drinking binges and seriously endanger themselves. ... One of the most pressing groups against lowering the alcohol drinking age is Mother's Against Drunk Driving (MADD). ... Coors is th...

Solution to Underage Drinking It is a Friday night. ... U.S. law states that the minimum drinking age is 21. ... The solution to less problems with alcohol does not lie with abstinence until the age of 21, but with teaching people how to drink responsibly at a younger age. The U.S. has the highest minimum drinking age in the world, and only four other nations have minimums over 18(Legal Drinking Age). ... This is why the drinking age should be lowered and teens should learn responsibility with alcohol at a young age from the home. ...

I propose that the drinking age on beer and wine be lowered to age 18, as it was up until the early 70's.... (Chaloupka 13) Lowering the drinking age on beer and wine would also lower the number of underage drinking tickets, eliminate the underground industry of fake identification, and offer 18-21 year olds the opportunity to "get their feet wet." ... It is illegal now for people under 18 to drink and it would still be illegal if the drinking age was lowered. ... My solution is very simple. Lower the drinking age on beer and wine from age 21 to age 18. ...

Underage Drinking "Live, from anywhere, it's Friday night: time for the youth of America to "rage". ... I think it's time to look to other nations and cultures for a possible solution. ... Underage drinking is, without a question, a serious problem. ... I also propose that the drinking age be lowered to eighteen and permit those of legal age to consume alcohol socially in controlled environments such as restaurants and official university functions. ... By lowering the drinking age we would help send the message that drinking is not a sign of maturity. ...

Underage drinking has no positive aspects to it. How can we say "yes" to underage drinking? The legal age to drink is twenty-one, and people should abide by the laws. Back in the 1960s and early '70s, a number of states lowered their drinking age from twenty-one to eighteen. ... Since then, all states have raised the drinking age back up to twenty one. ...

﻿Abstract This paper will explore the pros and the cons of lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18. ... Both the President of Dartmouth and the article "Alcohol Problems and Solutions", agree with that point. ... The Minimum Legal Drinking Age Laws (MLDA) believes that lowering age limits would lower the amount of Drinking under the influence (DUI). ... (Should the drinking age be lowered from 21 to a younger age? ... While lowering traffic fatalities is a good thing, a lowered drinking age would not and should not soften drunk driving penalties. ...

Lowering the Drinking Age to 18 ? ... When you"re eighteen you've entered that age of freedom, therefore you should be treated free and allowed to do what you want including drinking alcohol. ... Lowering the age could have some affects also. ... Also, it could be that there's more drinking underage because its illegal so kids like the fact that they"re doing something illegal. ... The solution is to educate young adults in how to drink responsibly. ...

Twenty-one is the magic age, with it comes a new-found freedom, the ability to legally purchae and consume alcohol. ... How ironic is it that the United States is the one country that has the worst problem with alcohol, but yet has the highest, strictest drinking age. Is there a solution to this widespread societal problem? I believe if the drinking age was lowered the desire for teens to drink would also lower dramatically. If this proved to be a helpful solution maybe we could then strive to abolish the drinking age altogether to a new generation where alcohol wasn't viewed so highly. ...

Drunk driving is among the biggest problems associated with irresponsible underage drinking. ... If underage drinking laws were better enforced by the law enforcement many teenage lives would be saved. ... In the article, "Combating Underage Drinking-, it states that alcohol is factor in fifty to sixty-five percent of all suicides among youth (1). ... A solution to stop immature underage drinkers would be strict supervision from their parents. ... Another solution to teenagers that still need to grow up and mature before drinking alcohol would be better police enforcement. ...